MAP+5+Planning

Greetings All, I can assure you that in the life of my career, this is the first year that the Onslow County School System has not had the opportunity to hire any new assistant principals. But fortunately for all of us, life is good and we are all very blessed to be employed in a progressive, supportive district.

Our MAP focus for the last several years has been new assistant principal support. Five years ago, our vision was that the new principals' support program would be COMPASS and our mantra very quickly became that one would need a COMPASS and a MAP to have a strong sense of direction.

With all of that said, I would like a little feedback from each of you as we attempt to define ourselves for the 2011-2012 school year:

Okay, I am done rambling!!!
 * 1) Would we like to continue our cohort work this year? If so, what is our focus? Do we need to take time to re-establish for future years the vision, mission and goals of our program and to possibly serve as a focus group for assistant principal initiatives, concerns, successes, etc.?
 * 2) Several years ago, we had discussed creating an electronic classroom walk-through tool based upon the new teacher evaluation system. Do we want to undertake a MAP project this year?
 * 3) Do we want to "study" one "thing" this year? If so, what thing?
 * 4) Do we want to become the model PLC for the district and focus on every element of being a professional learning community?

What are your thoughts?

Please hit the discussion tab and let's chat and plan. We will move forward after I hear from the group.